On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:19:01 +0100, Norman Schmidt <norman.schmidt@web.de> wrote: > Hi Christian! > > Christian Kivalo schrieb: > > hi everybody! > > > > i found out, that the superblock of my raid5 array says it's built > > out of 7 disks, but i created it with only 6 disk. the mdadm call > > used to create the array was: > > > > > i'm using mdadm version 0.7.2, i think that is pretty old. i will > > upgrade to a more recent version and recreate the array. > > > > still i would like to know if i encountered a bug or if thats some > > other problem. this mdadm version is the one from debian woody > > (stable). > > > > > > thanks in advance > > christian > > Yes, that is a bug in the (very old) 0.7.2 of Debian. Additionally, > these old versions cannot handle spare devices (after each assemble, > you hae to add them manually). Use at least mdadm 1.4.0, better the > newest (I believe 1.5.0). You do not need to recreate the array, > simply stop it and (re-)assemble it after you have the new mdadm in > place - and the bug and the wrong output is gone. > > Had the same problem (that with the spare device) with SuSE 8.2 and > Debian Woody... > hi norman! downloaded and compiled mdadm 1.5.0, reassembled the array with mdadm -A /dev/md6 --update=summaries and everything looks like expected now. thanks christian > Bye, Norman. > > -- > > Norman Schmidt Institut fuer Physikal. u. Theoret. Chemie > Dipl.-Chem. Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet > schmidt@naa.net Erlangen-Nuernberg > IT-Systembetreuer Physikalische Chemie > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" > in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
